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If you impose a lot of rules, monitor every little thing that your child does, then all they will do is find a way around whatever blocks / rules you have in place.

I saw a story on the local news a few weeks ago. This mother had been monitoring her daughters text message and call logs to see what she had been up to. Nothing suspicious ever came up. Then she learned of a service that the cell carrier provided that would let her log on and monitor the communications that had taken place with the account. She did that and found out that there had been lots of sexting going on among a half dozen or so of her friends. It turns out her daughter had been outwitting her all the time by deleting the offending messages from the history. So you are right, kids definitely will figure out ways around things.

However, here's the part of the story the really got to me and showed what a terrible parent she was. When she found out, she reported all the details to the police. Yes, she reported her own kid. I haven't heard the followup to the story, but the police were considering filing charges against the kids. If they handle this the way a lot of other places I've read about do, then this mother just gave her daughter a place on the sex offenders registry. She may have screwed up her daughters entire future.

"He noticed that she never used Newspeak words except the ones that had passed into everyday use. She had never heard of the Brotherhood, and refused to believe in its existence. Any kind of organized revolt against the Party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same. He wondered vaguely how many others like her there might be in the younger generation people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog."